Janie Brown

Radical Acts of Love

How We Find Hope at the End of Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A profoundly moving account of an oncology nurse's conversations with the dying

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6535
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 138mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781786899026
• ISBN-10: 1786899027
• Artikelnr.: 57882314

Autorenporträt

Janie Brown was born in Epsom, England, and raised in Scotland from the age of four. She has a Masters in Psychology at St Andrews University, and a Masters in Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She has worked for more than thirty years as an oncology nurse and counsellor, and in 1995 founded the Callanish Society, a grassroots non-profit organisation for people living with, and dying from, cancer, based in Vancouver (callanish.org). She presents nationally and internationally, has published in professional journals, and writes a widely read blog. janiebrown.com

Rezensionen

For a book that concerns itself with so many ways of coming to terms with death, this remarkable book is hugely life-affirming. It makes you think not just of how you might want to approach death, but of how you might want to live. These conversations from the heart of dying are bold, gracious, often witty and full of love. They accompany you in the dark. Then they let the light in JACKIE KAY